linux-kernel - Re: Intel BIOS - Corrupted low memory at ffff880000004200

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Message-ID: <20090709231936.GB1469@ucw.cz>
Date:	Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:19:36 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
Cc:	Alexey Fisher <bug-track@...her-privat.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Richard A. Holden III" <aciddeath@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: Intel BIOS - Corrupted low memory at ffff880000004200

On Wed 2009-07-08 12:39:49, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 06:24:47PM +0200, Alexey Fisher wrote:
> > Hallo Ingo, Richard.
> >
> > I'm getting "Corrupted low memory" trace with my Intel DG45ID board
> > after resume. This board  has different dmi-bios-vendor... so probably
> > it will be nice to have it in your patch.
> 
> I'm beginning to think that we should be doing this on all hardware, 
> perhaps with a kernel option to disable it for embedded devices that 
> really need that 64K. The low-memory corruption issue seems to be very 
> widespread.

Well, maybe it would be better to make suspen/resume part of firmware
testing kit or  something... and push intel to fix their bios.

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